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Not necessarily: In my experience some of us Germans take offense on every invasion into their privacy or personality rights, even if they happen to be part of an public demonstration. See also the outcry when google wanted to bring streetview to every German city.

He looks so much like a younger version of my husband, that I actually asked my husband, when we were dating, if it was him. Alas, the abs are long gone, though. But picture Techno Viking in full Harley gear and I'd say I'm still one lucky woman.

Paparazzis take pictures of public people; in most countries the laws separate privacy expectations between "normal" people and "celebrities" (and they still end paying fines etc. now and again). Paparazzis can get away with the stuff they do (if grudgingly), because they take photos of public people.

But if they started taking compromising pictures of normal people and started uploading them to web for money, they would very soon be in jail for peeping or harassment.

Sorry, you're wrong. As long as you're on public property the people you're recording don't have a reasonable expectation of privacy and therefore they release their right to have their image and likeness recorded for profit. How do you think movies are recorded on streets where there are hundreds of people walking around- do you think they get everyone's permission before they publish the movie?

If I take a picture of you on the street corner the image is my property and I'm free to do with it as I please, even if I wanted to put your face on every billboard in NYC.

Though I'm not able to find any notes regarding the actual law, I recall hearing on a few separate occasions that photography laws in Germany are different than US photography laws; that if you don't get permission to include a person in a photograph, that you cannot publish that photograph.

Apparently in Germany as long as they're not an integral part of the scene they're in public and they just have to deal with it (scenes of crowds in the city, etc); also, if someone knows they're being recorded and doesn't make any kind of moves to show that they don't want to be recorded, it's considered consent under German law. Since the TechnoViking guy is obviously the 'star' of this production piece it can be argued that this goes around this asterisk. There is an issue that the event at which this video was taken was called Fuck Parade, and apparently in German law (It might depend on the state) since it was an event the people present had no reasonable expectation their likeness and images couldn't be used for artistic/commercial use.

So it looks like the Technoviking guy is going to have to argue that 1.) Fuck Parade wasn't really an event (and apparently it's been banned in some German states?) 2.) He didn't know that he was being recorded even though it was obvious there was a camera on him.

It's more of a formality than anything; in the United States the Federal Courts have ruled time and time again that being in public at all means you lose your expectation of privacy and therefore artists/corporations/etc can take pictures/videos/paintings/illustrations as they please and sell them for profit.

It all comes down to "can you convince a judge?" Since German judges are particularly cuntish about anything even remotely smelling of "IP", you could probably win a case based on "he stole my soul, I mean, IP, using his demonic camera, your ubermachthonor".

Fritsch let the video collect dust on his personal website for six years, until he finally uploaded it to YouTube in 2006, where it continued to exist in obscurity for months. It took until 2007 for it to really take off.